The Honor Code
How Moral Revolutions Happen
In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as one of the most relevant philosophers today (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that new democratic movements over the last century have not been driven by legislation from above, Appiah explores the end of the duel in aristocratic England, the tumultuous struggles over footbinding in nineteenth-century China, the uprising of ordinary people against Atlantic slavery, and the horrors of honor killing in contemporary Pakistan. Intertwining philosophy and historical narrative, he h…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-34052-5
- EAN: 9780393340525
- Produktnummer: 11137306
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H14.1 cm x B21.0 cm x D1.7 cm 234 g
- Gewicht: 234
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Kwame Anthony Appiah pens the Ethicist column for the New York Times, and is the author of the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism, among many other works. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah lives in New York.
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